Jessica Stern's writing was very intense and hard to read. This woman has been through many horrible things in her life time and now she is comfortable visiting with terrorist, which is strange to hear. In the excerpt of Denial, we find out that her and her sister were raped at young age by a stranger. Her sister was able to get through the incident and move on with her life, but for Jessica it was not that easy. She sought the help from a therapist who diagnosed her with post traumatic stress disorder. After she found out her diagnosis, she decided not to let the rape incident control her life anymore. She wanted to go inside the minds of people who hurt others and that is why she chose terrorism as her topic of choice. Many people will not understand why she is not scared to go to terrorist camps, but she explains that since she has been through so many horrible things before, the emotion of fear does not set in. Instead she finds fear in situations that are not fearful to many, such as shopping malls and large crowds.
I believe that Stern's methodology is autobiographical because she is explaining to us the events that are happening her life in the past and present. She tells us why she is writing her work and the answers to why she does certain things in her everyday life. I believe she does this because many people have been asking her "why this?" and "why that?", so she wanted the world to hear her story.
Evans'chapter on autobiography apply to Jessica's writing because Evans states that an autbiography needs to make a reader feel the emotion of what the writer is talking about. The reader needs to be able to react to the piece emotionally in order to understand it. I believe that in Stern's piece, there were some parts that I did not even want to read because I was upset for what this woman and her sister had to go through in their lives. Stern really put emotion into her piece and that is why I feel that her work applies to Evan's chapter.
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